The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-04-21
VOL. XVII.

to say "We are the Lord's," and to think
themselves better than they ought to
think We would ''rather be a dog and
bay the moon,' than to be hide bound
'sSectarian." You may call us fool; you
NAV call us Radical or anything else that
is obiurgatory and offensive, but do not,
we beg You, charge us with being in sym
patty with close bound corporation of
"Sectarians.
The announcement is made by the pub
fishers of the Southern Bivouac, a maga-
zine devoted to war papers and Southern
character sketches, that the monthly has
been purchased by the Century Company
of New York, and that, commencing with
the May number, the periodical will be
issued from that house. The Century
Company becomes possessor of the cuts,
&c, belonging to the Bivouac, and will
fill the unexpired subscriptions under the
former owners. When Will the people of
the South appreciate and build up South
ern Magazine2
Politicians are accustomed to don an old
hat and a rusty suit of clothes when cleo
toneering for an Office. Many smart
fellow has been defeated because of a
glossy beaver or gold headed cane. Re
Gently in Powhatan county the extreme III
such gullibility was reached. Two negroes
were running for Supervisor in a big Re-
publican district. The defeated candi-
dates downfall was secured through this
argument: That he wears white shirt
in the week days, when he ought to have
on hickory shirt
Shades of Calhoun save us from such
political arguments.
All who have read Charles Dickens
''Dombey and Son" will remember the de-
scription of DR. Blimber's school, in which,
according to Dickens, There was forcing
apparatus necessarily at work. All the
boys blew before their time. Mental green
peas were produced at Christmas and in
tellectual asparagus all the year ro.:nd.
Mathematical gooseberries very sour ones)
were common at untimely seasons and
from mere sprouts of bushes under DR..
| Blimber's cultivation. Every description
of Greek and Latin vegetable was got Oft
the dryest twigs of boys under the frosti-
est circumstances. Nature was of no con
sequence at all. No matter what young
gentleman was intended to bear DR.. Blim-
| Der made him bear to pattern But the
| system of forcing was attended with its
usual disadvantages There was not the
| right taste about the premature produc-
I tlons and they didn't keen we'll When
poor Paul had spelt out Nc. 2 he found he
! had no idea of No. 1, fragments whereof
afterwards obtruded themselves into No
/ 3 which Sided into No. which grated
| itself on to No. 2: so that whether twenty
| Romuluses made a Remus, or verb
always agreed with an ancient Briton, OF
three times four was Taurus bull, We're
open questions with him
The above is brought to mind by the re
ceipt of new book "English as she is
Taught" published by Cassell & Co., New
York, n Y Mark Twain has recently
made this subject interesting by his article
in the Century. This little book contains
many of the answers of school children
which Mark gives in his article. There i:
| fun enough in the book to make one laugh
house way of educating children is con
demned, not in words, but by ridicule
1t is a good book